18 times when Dhoni finished a cricket match with a six

“Dhoni finishes off in style. A magnificent strike into the crowd! India lift the World Cup after 28 years!”

If you love Dhoni or hate Dhoni, you will always cherish the above moment - Dhoni finishing the 2011 WC final with a six. Dhoni has finished a lot of matches with a six before this one but this one was special. When I watch this moment again and again today, I get goosbumps all over my body.

When Dhoni arrived at the International stage, he used to be very agressive. His agressive batting won India a lot of matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka during his initial stages. As the time passed by and he got additional responsibility of captaincy, his batting approach chnaged. He started taking calculated risks and tried to take the match till last overs. Sometimes the approach worked and sometimes it didn’t. But we saw very less of finishing sixes. We still do see the “Dhoni of past” in IPL. Dhoni finishing with a six in International Matches

The below table data is from 2006. Before 2006, Dhoni finished with a six in ODI 4 times:

1. Against West Indies in Dambulla on Jul 31 2005 off Jermaine Lawson
2. Against Zimbabwe in Harare on Sep 4 2005 off NB Mahwire
3. Against Sri Lanka in Jaipur on Oct 31 2005 off TM Dilshan
4. Against Sri Lanka in Pune on Nov 3 2005 off RP Arnold

#	Date	Venue	Format	Opposition	Bowler
5	20/10/07	Brabourne Stadium	T20	Australia	B Lee
6	15/11/07	Captain Roop Singh Stadium	ODI	Pakistan	Salman Butt
7	26/06/08	National Stadium	ODI	Pakistan	Younis Khan
8	02/04/11	Wankhede Stadium	ODI	Sri Lanka	KMDN Kulasekara
9	31/08/12	M Chinnaswamy Stadium	Test	New Zealand	JS Patel
10	11/07/13	Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain	ODI	Sri Lanka	RMS Eranga
11	14/03/15	Eden Park	ODI	Zimbabwe	T Panyangara
12	28/03/14	Shere Bangla National Stadium	T20	Bangladesh	Ziaur Rahman
13	06/03/16	Shere Bangla National Stadium	T20	Bangladesh	Al-Amin Hossain

Dhoni finishing with a six in IPL Matches

#	Date	Venue	Format	Opposition	Bowler
14	26/04/08	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk	T20	Kolkata Knight Riders	M Kartik
15	18/04/10	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium	T20	Kings XI Punjab	IK Pathan
16	21/05/16	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	T20	Kings XI Punjab	AR Patel
17	25/04/18	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium	T20	Royal Challengers Bangalore	CJ Anderson
18	20/05/18	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	T20	Kings XI Punjab	MM Sharma

Dhoni finishing with a four

#	Date	Venue	Format	Opposition	Bowler
1	13/02/06	Gaddafi Stadium	ODI	Pakistan	Abdul Razzaq
2	02/03/08	Sydney Cricket Ground	ODI	Australia	JR Hopes
3	16/05/09	St George’s Park	T20	Mumbai Indians	DJ Bravo
4	16/06/10	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	ODI	Bangladesh	Mashrafe Mortaza
5	20/10/11	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	ODI	England	TT Bresnan
6	18/03/12	Shere Bangla National Stadium	ODI	Pakistan	Umar Gul
7	19/01/13	JSCA International Stadium Complex	ODI	England	ST Finn
8	25/04/13	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk	T20	Sunrisers Hyderabad	A Ashish Reddy
9	14/03/13	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	Test	Australia	MA Starc
10	22/03/13	Feroz Shah Kotla	Test	Australia	NM Lyon
11	06/03/15	Western Australia Cricket Association Ground	ODI	West Indies	MN Samuels
12	27/11/13	Green Park	ODI	West Indies	V Permaul
13	27/04/14	Sharjah Cricket Stadium	T20	Sunrisers Hyderabad	A Mishra
14	05/05/14	Feroz Shah Kotla	T20	Delhi Daredevils	JD Unadkat
15	10/05/14	Wankhede Stadium	T20	Mumbai Indians	KA Pollard
16	27/03/16	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	T20	Australia	JP Faulkner
17	27/02/16	Shere Bangla National Stadium	T20	Pakistan	Wahab Riaz
18	22/04/17	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	T20	Sunrisers Hyderabad	S Kaul